Session 6. Binary Stars

Display, Monday, January 7, 2002, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

6.01 Analysis of the Southern Eclipsing Variables V431 Sagittarii, V576 Centauri, BF Pavonis, and AT Aquarii

R.G. Samec, M.L Stoddard, E.V. Balardelle, J.H Laird, J.O. Mattos, J.G. Miller, J. Molgaard, T.W. Brown, J.R. Weiss (Bob Jones University), Astronomy Team

6.02 The RECONS Hunt for Intriguing Binaries in the Solar Neighborhood

J.L. Bean (Georgia Institute of Technology), T.J. Henry, W.C. Jao, J.P. Subasavage (Georgia State University)

6.03 Fundamental Parameters of the O-Type, Eclipsing Binary, HD 101213

C. Ouzts, L. R. Penny (College of Charleston)

6.04 Orbits of Four Very Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster

L. R. Penny (College of Charleston), P. Massey, J. Vukovich (Lowell Observatory)

6.05 Characteristics of the Population of Spectroscopic Binaries Found in the Carney-Latham Proper-Motion Survey

D.W. Latham (CfA), T. Mazeh (Tel Aviv), B.W. Carney (UNC), R.P. Stefanik (CfA), J.B. Laird (Bowling Green), G. Torres (CfA), D. Goldberg (Tel Aviv), R.J. Davis (CfA), J.A. Morse (CASA)

6.06 Binaries, Rotation, and Velocity Jitter in Metal-Poor Field Red Giants

R.P. Stefanik (CfA), B.W. Carney (UNC), D.W. Latham (CfA), J.A. Morse (CASA), J.B. Laird (Bowling Green)

6.07 Blue Straggler Binaries and Mass Transfer

B. W. Carney (UNC), D. W. Latham (CfA), J. B. Laird (Bowling Green State Univ.), C. E. Grant (MIT ), J. A. Morse (CASA)

6.08 Uncommon Dust Event Captured by Keck Aperture Masking

J. D. Monnier (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), P. G. Tuthill (University of Sydney), W. C. Danchi (NASA-GSFC)

6.09 The U.S. Naval Observatory Double Star CD 2001.0

B. D. Mason, W. I. Hartkopf (USNO)

6.10 Magnetic Cycle Induced Period Changes in the Algol WW Cygni

B.J. McNamara, T.E. Harrison, R.T. Zavala, E. Galvan, J. Galvan, T. Jarvis, G. Killgore, O.R. Mireles, D. Olivares, B.A. Rodriquez, A.L. Silva, Andrea Silva, E. Silva-Velarde (New Mexico State University)

6.11 The Search for the Orbital Period of X1556-60

G. Brammer (CTIO / Williams College), S. Wachter, D. W. Hoard (CTIO), A. P. Smale (GSFC)

6.12 A Study of the Low Mass Binary Star Ross 614

G. Gatewood (U. Pittsburgh), I. Han (Korea Astronomy Obs.), W. Tangren (U.S. Naval Observatory)

6.13 Spectroscopy of the temporal variations of \alpha Vir

R. L. Riddle (Iowa State University), W. G. Bagnuolo, D. R. Gies (Georgia State University)

6.14 Eclipsing Binary Millisecond Pulsars: Observations of Orbit and Pulse Phase Variability

D.J. Nice (Princeton University), Z. Arzoumanian (NASA/GSFC), S.E. Thorsett (UC-Santa Cruz)

6.15 Hot Subdwarf Membership in Visual Binaries

M.A. Stark, R.A. Wade (Penn State University), J.A. Orosz (Utrecht), G.B. Berriman (IPAC, Caltech)

6.16 The Orbit of \theta² Tauri from Long Baseline Optical Interferometry

J. T. Armstrong, D. Mozurkewich (Naval Research Laboratory), A. R. Hajian (US Naval Observatory), R. N. Thessin (Caltech), D. M. Peterson (SUNY Stony Brook)

6.17 DIRECT Distances to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. Variables in Field M31Y

A.Z. Bonanos, K.Z. Stanek, D.D. Sasselov (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Kaluzny, B. J. Mochejska (Copernicus Astronomical Observatory (Warsaw))

6.18 The Photometric Analysis of Two New Eclipsing Binary Stars

M. La Vigne (WMC), J. S. Shaw (UGA)

6.19 Contiguous 13-day NIR spectral observations of SS~433

M.M. Hanson (U.Cincinnati), R.P. Fender (U.Amsterdam), M.D. Still (USRA/GSFC/NASA)

6.20 Determination of Orbital Parameters for Visual Binary Stars Using a Fourier-Series Approach

D.E. Brown (Lehigh University and Brigham Young University), J.R. Prager, G.G. DeLeo, G.E. McCluskey, Jr. (Lehigh University)

6.21 Eclipse Observations of EXO0748-676 and X1658-298 with USA and RXTE

M. T. Wolff, P. S. Ray, K. S. Wood (NRL), A. P. Smale (GSFC/USRA), P. Hertz (NASA HQ)